GeneDavis

3D > Materials > Plan Materials, select the floor finish you want to rename, copy it to make a new material, call it whatever you want, maybe ROB 3-4-5, and then change the rooms to have the new shorter-name flooring, which will look the same as the one you copied.

OK, @jorgearaya, if that is what it is designed to do, but fails with respect to getting results I need, and no way to fix, what is that different tool? Or more but not to the point, then, what is this Rotate Plan tool designed to do? What is it's purpose? If Edit > Edit Area is the right approach (I've used it before), why this thing? I solved my dilemma using Edit > Edit Area. And edited truss did not survive the rotation and I had to re-do it, but that was all.

I used Tools > Rotate Plan View and my elevation callouts (Front Elevation, Left Elevation, etc.) are wrong for me now, and my Y axis is plus down and not plus up.

But I'd like to do it without the appliance. I do other appliances that aren't in libraries.

I know I have done this successfully before but cannot remember the method for spec. I do a trashbin pullout (Rev-a-shelf hardware) drawer in most kitchens I model. See the pic here. How do I get the handle up and onto the top rail of the paneled drawerfront, instead of the center? I cannot get a handle on it if I spec it as a door panel or drawer panel. As shown in pic, when I spec it as a drawer (which it is), I cannot move the handle where wanted without affecting the drawer above. If I spec it as a bottom hinged drawer, I get the handle where I want, but I don't want the opening indicator.

I am having an awful time with X17 locking up when in a standard camera view or in PBR. Even when in perspective framing overview, with the standard camera view showing all that fir grain on every stud, cripple, rafter, and beam, any mouse move with the camera makes my laptop lock. The only out is a hard close via holding down the power button. Wanting to see what my exteriors look like after making changes in 2D, or wanting to see roomscapes, I do a lot of perspective camera viewing, moving the camera when in view with the mouse. I've had dozens of lockups when doing this. You can view my system specs in my sig. The driver is the 32.0.15.7700 from July 12, 2025. I went to put that newer one in but read the warning in the recent thread about that one causing crashes. What I want is to set my Chief to use vector view no patterns as the default camera setup whenever I go to perspective overview and perspective framing overview. I think this will solve my problem. I know I can change the camera view type when the view opens, but I want the view to open in what I am now considering "safe from lockup" mode. How is this done?

I've one room in this project drawn with a ceiling plane pitched to match roof above. I drew parallel chord trusses and all are OK, but I need one joist at the wall and it draws level. Is this a bug?

Here is a pic of my driver detail.

What's irregular? i go through the entire project imagining it fully framed, room by room, roof plane by roof plane, and focus first on all the structural bearings. Walls, beams, columns, posts. Ceiling framing comes last, but i've already considered it in deciding whether ceiling framing bears on top wall plates or if a wall balloon-frames through. Post your plan, stripped of everything not structural, so we can see what you've got. No cabinets, no appliances, no plumbing fixtures. Just all the walls, platforms, roofs, with all the window and door openings.

My standard detail for wall cabinets is to raise the deck 1-1/4", make the door overhang the deck bottom that same amount, and place a 3/4" x 1-1/8" light rail under the deck flush to the front, right behind the door. It works to house and mask my undercab LED tape lighting (WAC) and my angled plugmold at rear wall detail. Using the faceframed option for carcases, separation set to 3/4, add at the bottom front an opening 1-1/4" h., and make the door reveal for the deck (the bottom 3/4" "separation," -1-1/4". For joined runs of wall cabs, I want the end cabs, those with finished ends (sides), I leave the side alone, but any sides that butt to another wall cab get the "custom face" treatment to the side that abuts, adding the same opening at 1.25" to the bottom. To be a purist, I do the same at the back with the bottom opening. The cabinet shop builds these boxes this way: for 36" tall cabs, the doors are 35-7/8" tall (my top reveal for wallcabs is 1/8"), the carcases are 36 - 1.25 = 34.75" tall, and any that are ends have the appropriately side 36" high, the 1.25" overhang at bottom. You can see the results of my doodling in the pic below. It's an end box, the near side flush to the deck bottom, the far side overhanging to match the door. The light rail molding is something I do after a cab arrangement is all final, and is done with the molding tool. It's not within the cabinet modeling dialog. I don't know how to remove that little stile stub you see in the near bottom corner. Maybe @MarkMc can weigh in here and show us how.

Thanks! That's it. Wonder why it is considered an interior wall. I could not find any Chief traning vids about clerestory windows and walls.

Three pics attached. Exterior view, wall opened for spec (note it is checked as attic), section. I am unable to specify different casing, sill, and apron trim for exterior and exterior.

I thought I liked the setup whereby you "store" the images in the project, until I ran into this. The hack I just did was to export the image to my desktop, from where it is readily "importable" to a layout page. To keep the desktop clean, I delete it from there after importing to the Chief layout page. I tested saving the layout, then going to desktop and deleting the image file, then reopening the layout, and the image is still there. But this sucks. Chief should have thought this through. Look at all the images they have in any of their samples of layouts. One should be able to send any image in the project file directly to layout.

Before 17 I sent any pics or screencaps I wanted to use, to my project folder created by me. It was easy to email images to clients, and easy to import pics to layout. I cannot see how to import the pics in the project to layout. What is the secret?

It was a Windows issue and tech support Brian walked me through the fix.